well, winterim is over and i've done almost all of my apush reading. that just leaves my two-pager (i have not even decided what i am going to write about or what stance i am going to take. anybody on my f-list feel anything strongly towards the ethical questions of genetic testing/screening?) and research for an english paper. plus, stuff for the sats and the usual parental angst that goes along with it.

i'm feeling kind of lazy and stupid and self-conflicted right now.

my winterim project went fairly well. not that many people came to see my presentation, and most of the people who did came to tell me that they read/liked my blog (we have to do journals or blogs for independent studies) instead of asking me what i did, haha. apparently it was quite humorous. i might copy/paste excerpts to my lj in the future, because if i link it i think i will give away more personal information than i'd like to, haha.

back to school on monday. man, what a drag.

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That being said, NaNoWriMo has essentially died a peaceful death on me. Also, I hope I get an iTouch for Christmas, because I have very little space on my iPod left (I have doubts on this one, of course). Oh, and I need to do all my Winterim homework in one week or man, will I be screwed. I have left:

- APUSH reading
- 2-page response paper and worksheet for AP Bio
- Research for an English paper
- Winterim project.

... Um, at this point I guess I'm really only worried about the second and fourth.

① I've realized the problem with me and NaNoWriMo. It's that I can't put down so many words in one day. I mean... it takes me months and months to crank out 10,000 words. To be honest, I'm surprised I'm over 6,500 words at this point.

Even if I don't finish by the end of the month, which I don't think I will, I am going to do my best to finish this eventually, though. I'll post some of what I've written later...


② Winterim! I like it, I do. I do a lot of office-work (I may elaborate on this in the form of scribbled comics), but I also sit in on pretrials and hearings and stuff like that. It's all very interesting stuff. I'm enjoying myself, and I'm getting a lot out of it, both personally and educationally.


③ Relationship with father has improved, finally. How ironic that this whole thing was over Winterim and things suddenly ameliorated just about around when it started. On the other hand, I had a bit of a disagreement with my mother today over SATs. She wants me to get a perfect 2400 on them, I personally think that she should not expect anything over a 2200 and that's if I get lucky. She thinks I don't work hard enough on them. I think that as I've technically been studying for the damn thing since eighth grade and she still doesn't know all the rules on them she has no place to talk.

... I hate tests.


④ So, I have a kind of an issue and I'd like some input... actually, it's a problem that's facing me at several different aspects. If somebody's doing something wrong that bothers you personally, should you say something? Does it matter if the end result is the same either way? What's a polite, nonbitchy way to do it? Gah, I just... suck at confrontation, really. Mostly I want to know a polite, nonbitchy way to go about this...

update on heartbeats. up to 1582 words. crap, i'm behind. :C

( -- and the tree bloomed again. )

As with last time, feedback, please! C:
By the way, Noah is the main character, if you can't tell.


Oh, and Winterim. I like it. Will elaborate more later.

I lied about NaNoWriMo. I'm going to try and actually write a proper novel. 'A' This is my account, so you can, like. Idk. Follow me or something.

I will eventually stop abusing Courier New, too. :|

( 303 words. this is all intro, can you believe it. )

Feedback, please?

Happy birthday to me. C:

It's a nice, sunny day, which is nice. It's been raining and cold and wet all week. Plus, three-day-weekend. The only minus was having to study for the PSAT, which was on Wednesday. I hope it'll continue to be a good day. ♥

Saw this online and thought I'd record it. Most of these I finished within the last three years of school, eheheh... although a lot of them I've read on my own, too.

Bolded are books I’ve read and italics are books I never finished.

( cut as to not stretch flists and whatnot. )

Italics x 13
Bold x 32
Better than I thought I'd do, I guess.

On a seperate note completely:
Happy birthday, China and Taiwan. May you two be happy neighbors someday in the distant future. ♥ Because honestly this China-Taiwan thing is getting out of hand. Don't even get me started on this topic because I can go on for a looong time. But yeah -- hopefully these two countries will be able to resolve their differences within the next sixty years, yeah?

Choose a fandom from the list below, and if you want, some characters as well. Then pick a prompt from one of these three websites; fml.com, mlia.com or tfln.com (FMyLife, MyLifeIsAverage and TextsFromLastNight) and I will write you a drabble concerning that prompt and characters.

In return, post in your journal.


Please post like this:

fandom fandom goes here!
prompt prompt goes here!
notes anything else to say goes here!

fandoms I'll write in: Lux Pain, Axis Powers Hetalia, Yugioh GX (maybe), Pandora Hearts, Karneval, Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Shaman King, Kamichama Karin (~chu), nonstopstates, Honeydew Syndrome, Kingdom Hearts, The World Ends With You, Ace Attorney series. [Ask for any fandom; if I don't know it I'll say so. Chances are I left out a ton of series I follow.]

DISCLAIMER: your drabble might be shitastic, but I will try my best. Request in quantities -- you'll have a larger chance of actually getting anything written!

Totally won my first doubles match today. *__ *

That's a little sad, now that I think about it. But then again, neither I nor my doubles partner actually take tennis all that seriously... I mean, we don't play offseason or take lessons or anything. But it was really exciting! And I felt like I played very well today, too. We played an 8-game proset; won 8-4. C:

Had my first piano lesson in about five months yesterday evening. The professor is so nice. I really like her. I hope that she won't mind the fact that I... don't have time to practice. But I like to play piano, so it's refreshing to get back into it. Started a Chopin mazurka and a Scarlatti sonata. This should be interesting -- it's only the second Chopin mazurka I've played, although I've played a fair amount of Chopin, and I've never played Scarlatti before. To be honest, I really don't like playing Baroque period stuff very much -- it always feels very predictable -- but this sonata has a very bouncy feel to it, and the counterpoint really works well in it.

My latest Winterim has failed. Again. I am still attempting to slap something together lastminute by begging every law office in my town to let me intern there.

I still haven't finished that article. I'm supposed to turn it in tomorrow. Well, I just need to write a half-decent conclusion... Still, since I was asked to write it a month ago, this is really quite a failure on my part. At least I wrote it, I guess.

I'm back in America! And damn, I'm glad to be back. I'll probably post in a few days with my thoughts and photos and stuff, but I thought it would be nice to finally update my lj, since I haven't been keeping up with it at all. (Though I've been keeping up with my rp journals? Then again, that's more like an obligation in a way...)

Also! I went to Japan for a week while I was away! Which was really exciting since it's the third foreign country I've visited. The other two? China and Canada. So I've got lots of photos and stuff from there, too. ♥

I got plenty of postcards, so if anybody else wants one I'd be happy to send one. ♥ For the people I already talked to, I'll be sending them out soon. I need stamps, haha.

But yeah, it's nice to be back. ♥

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I'm going to be in China in less than two days now. Kind of freaking out, both in a good and a bad way.

On the bright side, I heard LJ is unblocked so I should be able to keep up with stuff here, more or less.

Mostly I just don't know what I'm going to do for fourteen hours on the airplane. Sleep and read and watch movies, probably. I'll have my laptop, but the battery runs out pretty quickly on it. (Surprising, considering it's fairly new.) And I don't really wanna take it out on the airplane anyways.

In a moment of intelligence, the tickets that were booked were two window seats. I don't really like window seats that much. I hate airplanes, actually. I don't like flying. It's noisy and the air pressure changes always give me a headache.

I'm going to seriously miss America and its comforts. I will try to remember that I was the one that asked to go to China when I'm miserable and it's over 100 degrees out and humid and overall sucky.

... But yeah, I'm also excited. It'll be a good trip. :)b

I finished Lux-Pain. Good ending, only the 'necessary' people had to die. Hooraaaah! P: Probably not going to replay it for some time because I'm not really in the mood (haven't been sleeping well lately, school's a drag, exams are in a few weeks, SAT Chem is in a few weeks too...) but I enjoyed it. Really, I did.


... Man, I feel like writing fanfiction.

( here, have some pairiiings. )

So, I bought Lux-Pain yesterday. Used. Somebody didn't like the game very much (three save files with only twenty minutes on each and nothing in the archives).

I'm currently in the middle Episode 02. I am already beginning to get a little freaked out as to what this game might entail. It's... kind of a good and bad freaked out. I think that's kind of a good thing, though, because if I wasn't freaked out by the idea of mass murder, group suicides, sadastic animal cruelty, and etc., I would be disturbed at my own apathy towards such things. But if they start showing corpses and mutilated animals, I anticipate a certain level of 'as;ldofkjansdf OH MY oh my GOD I am really really FREAKING OUT right now' to occur. P:

To be honest, I got edgy during 00. I was afraid that some psycho would pop out of nowhere or that some corpse would just, like, fall on top of Atsuki or something. Oh god.

Next, I will echo several complaints on this game that I've seen so far: The voice acting and translations? Yeah, they don't really match up at points. It's kind of lulzy in places, actually, but considering this is supposed to be a serious game, it detracts from it. I'm also not really enthusiastic about some of the voice acting. At least Atsuki's voice fits, or I would be sitting there agonizing over how he just doesn't sound right for twenty-plus hours as I played the game.

I think I see some typecasting going on already. I'm hoping it doesn't end up with stereotypes running all over the place and with all the predictable people breaking. Though judging from the spoilers I read it seems like pretty much everybody breaks, lol. I'm pretty sure Yayoi is suicidal and the teacher -- Yamoto, I think his name was -- has to have a SILENT. And I have an edgy feeling about Shinji, too. The only characters I don't really feel will be particularly affected are Nami, Rui, and strangely enough, Ryo.

Initially I thought that Liu Yee was fishy as all hell too but I am quickly gaining faith in him. I think it's ironic he's the only Chinese one considering they're always talking about the Shanghai Incident or whatever it's called.

The gameplay is easy enough, though it took me a while to realize I could use the top screen to find worms instead of blindly using 'search' over and over again. Hopefully this will not change throughout the game or I'm seriously screwed over. I also have yet to encounter a SILENT, but from the way it's described in the pamphlet it should be easy enough. In other news, please pick one translation and stick with it, oh god -- Ethers? Worms? Shinen? Are these all different words for the same thing?!

And just to state the obvious: Atsuki/Everybody = canon so freaking hard, canon canon canon.

I am also a bit nervous that missing some scenes will cause an eventual game-over that can't be avoided. I know I already missed one: 02, in the Art Room, during lunch... probably with Yayoi. Ggg. Hoping that this doesn't kill the game in one go because I didn't make any spare save files and I don't want to play through the two episodes again.


All in all, I think I will enjoy it for its plot. Then again, I enjoyed Rondo of Swords for its plot, so that doesn't say much. P:

I dunno why I did this. I should be working, really. Eheh. ♥ Don't judge me on my playlist, you guys...! Haha.

CHALLENGE:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn your music player on and turn it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabblet/ficlet related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterward! No matter how whacked out your drabble is.
4. Do ten of these, then post them.

Fandom: Axis Powers Hetalia.


All The Things In-Between; Calender Marks || My Favorite Highway
( it occurs to him that time passes quickly )
To Be Compelled; Killer Queen || Queen
( that damn aristocrat. )
On the Wings of a Terrible Heaven; Bad Habits || My Favorite Highway
( he has memories like smoke )
"mightier than the"; I'm Just a Killer for Your Love || Blur
( he can't put her sword to her )
Hamartia; Violet Hill || Coldplay
( he still smiles. )
something that never was; SexyBack || Justin Timberlake
( the lights above pulse violently )
A Strange Sort of Beauty; Revolution || the Beatles
( 'i'm falling apart,' she says. )
Window Shoppers; It Is Fashionable || TWEWY Soundtrack
( 'i, like, totally love it!' )
halt your heartbeat; Paralyzer || Finger Eleven
( there's something about his gaze that holds you down )
and we will become beautiful and perfect once more; When the Day Met the Night || Panic at the Disco
( there's nothing in her eyes that asks him to save her )


END-NOTES: ( blah blah blah explaining stuff here. )

So, don't think I mentioned this, but I'm in D.C. right now for spring break.



... Because I am secretly still eight on the inside, I have made plans to go to the spy museum. The only lasting memory I have of it is going inside the fake ventilation system pretending to spying on the Cuban government.

I'm so cool.

)':

I dunno. I just... feel kind of bad, but a little relieved at the same time.

I've been busy like woah lately, and I have a feeling it won't really... stop being that way until second semester senior year. Which is a long time from now. So... I am not sure why I try to keep up with formal role plays anymore, as it generally results in me eventually fizzling out either way. :/

Momentary pieces of happiness, I suppose.